Forever Siblings; come what may..

Chapter Ten

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Coy's POV
I am pacing up and down in my bedroom. My mental calculations seem to be totalling into nonsense. I have tried to lay down but I swear I can't sleep. I try to plug some earphone in my ears but it's not working. I sit on the bed but it's like the mattress develops needles. My buttocks can't settle down. I try calling Rene but I end up in voicemail. Shit, this makes it worse. This adrenaline rush might break me if I don't do something. I look at the watch and it's past midnight. Fuck the time, morning will never come.

Allie and Elex must have slept immediately after their bodies hit the mattresses. I tiptoe to the main door and open gently so that I don't cause an alarm. We have a car parked behind the apartment but I decide against driving. I use my phone to hail a cab and wait outside the gate. It says four minutes and he gets to where I am. That is good news.

In half an hour, I am alighting. I dash some notes to the guy and knock at the black gate. The watchman takes time to open and when he does, I want to hit his head. He was damn asleep when he's supposed to be working.

This apartment is smaller compared to ours. Its neighborhood is less populated and from the designs of the houses, it's high-end. His car is parked right near the entrance and...this nigga was damn tired. He never parks here, never.

I take hold of the door knob and turn, it's locked. Lucky enough, I never leave my bunch of keys whenever am going out, his spare key is with me and I unlock the door easily. Once I am inside, I kick the door by my leg and head upstairs.

Oris.
He is sleeping as if nothing matters in this world, not even Rene. I fight against the urge to strangle his neck at first sight. My fists ball up and I shiver from within. For how long will my big brother keep messing up with my sisters? Why doesn't he try and mess up with me? Oh, he actually messes up with me because he knows that my life rotates around both Rene and Allie. I would want to kill him but then, he's my sibling- my elder brother- as mannerless as he is, and I love him, to Moon and back. Strange, right?

Next to his bed is a small pistol on the table. I look at it for sometime before picking it. It's Kahr CM9. Wow, I am not so into weapons because I trust myself even without them. It's small to fit in jacket pocket without drawing attention. It's length is roughly 2.5 inches. This is lovely. It's very light to be carried inside a pocket throughout the day without feeling it's weight. Maybe I should try it on him...

He stirs in his sleep. When he groans he says something that sounds like blood before snapping out of his, I suppose dream. He's sweating profusely but when he opens his eyes to meet me standing next to him, he jumps up. The pistol is still in my hands and I can do what I want with it- but I will never shoot him, I just can't- he's my brother.

I wave this pistol on his face. "I should have shot you in your sleep brother." I know I can't.

"But you couldn't because of the fucking vow." He rubs his eye. Yes and no. It's partly yes, because of the vow and partly no, because, leave alone the vow, I would never kill by a gun. I would rather do it with my own hands. I believe only cowards use guns.
"Give it to me!" Huh, I hand it to him and wait to see what he does. My breathing accelerates at his tone.

"Get out brother before I now use it on you!" Oh yes, Oris can use it on me but I don't care. I came for a real fight. I came to teach him a lesson, not to ever point a finger to our sisters. I came to fight for Rene. I came to show him how much of a monster he is. The anger in me rises to levels beyond what I can hold and before I know it, I am right on him. The pistol rolls down to the carpeted floor. He surely couldn't use it on me. I hit him severally without giving him a break. Maybe I should just halfway kill him.

"Don't you ever touch them!" I shout at him. My tone betrays my original intention to sound calm.

"You are a coward Coy." He spits some blood. Am I now?

"You, Allie, and she, even Elex, are cowards." He says. At some point his eyes tell me that he allowed me to hit him that much intentionally. He just didn't want to fight back maybe because he knows that he's the one on the wrong side.

"Cowards! Tell me more." Yes, I want to know why he thinks like this.
"You hate me for messing your lives but you all don't want to do away with me. You should kill me... You hate me just the way father, or Cornelius hates me. You are no different from him. We vowed to stick together as siblings but you watch Rene do some shit and you can't confront her- because you are cowards." This is so Oris. He moves forth and back whenever something happens. Well, he manages to win our pity and allegiance but today, it's for Rene.

I am about hitting him when he gives me one strong round kick. Shit. I go down and before I know it, he has another gun pointed right on my forehead.

"Shoot brother!" I tell him from the floor. "Shoot and kill me because I will never watch you continue bugging us with your shit."

His cheeks darken with anger and when he closes his eyes, I know I am gone but for a good cause. Fighting for Rene is the best cause to die for. I am still down when some commotion from the living room steals his attention.
"Fuck!" I hear him cursing.
"Brother, you left me no option." He tells me me then counts one, two...